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Last night’s opening battle round on The Voice 2015 saw coaches Will.i.am, Rita Ora, Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson each put six members of their teams head-to-head.

Here are 12 things we noticed while watching the show:

1. The coaches often match up similar pairings in their battles. So this week we had the Battle of the Soul Singers (Joyful Soundz versus Newtion Matthews), the Battle of the Opera Singers (Lucy O’Byrne versus Karl Loxley) and (sort of) the War of the Roses (Claudia Rose versus Rosa Iamele).

2. Six of the coaches’ eight steals were used this week. Two losing performers were poached from both Team Will (Joyful Soundz and Karl) and Team Rita (Ryan Green and Olivia Lawson), with only one each coming from Tom (Claudia) and Ricky’s teams (Shellyann). All four judges employed at least one steal, with Tom and Ricky using both.

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3. You might think the coaches would only steal contestants who they had previously turned for during the blind auditions but in fact that was only the case with Olivia and Claudia, who were both stolen by Ricky, who had lost out on both of them first time around.

4. For Joyful Soundz, Karl, Ryan and Shellyann, each of them passed their blind audition with just a single coach turn and were therefore stolen by a coach who had not wanted them initially.

5. Of the four duos to make it through to the battle rounds, only one performed this week: Joyful Soundz, who were beaten by Newtion but stolen by Tom. We will see Classical Reflection, DTwinz and The Mac Bros next week.

6. Four of the 12 battles pitted a male soloist against a female one, and in each case the male singer progressed through to the next round. Clark Carmody beat Olivia, Mitch Miller defeated Morven Brown and Howard Rose edged out Stephanie Webber. Karl did lose out to Lucy, but he was saved by Tom’s steal.

7. Flattery (or bribery) doesn’t get you everywhere. Rozzy brought presents for Will including underwear, but still lost out to Brooklyn.

8. Revelations, revelations. Hannah Symons revealed she is deaf in one ear, while Morven showed Rita a selfie she took with her a year previously.

9. How to win friends and influence people. Having won his battle against Tim Arnold, Stevie McCrorie (accidentally) punched Ricky in the face as they walked off stage. I predict a riot.

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10. Tom admitted he has never met Stevie Nicks. Surprising, given that (other than David Bowie) he’s met everyone else in the music world and performed with most of them.